Looking at Jim's work is definitely the basis for this subject - an easy intro is the (unofficial Festschrift) volume Language and Grammar: Studies in Mathematical Linguistics and Natural Language (Claudia Casadio, Philip J. Scott, and Robert A.G. Seely, editors) (CSLI 2005) < http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575864886.shtml > The introduction is available online: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/lambek/CSS-IntroLambekProg.pdf There are lots of references which can start you off ... -= rags =- On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, John Baez wrote:
Pierre Cardscia wrote:
it seemed, but I'm not sure, that the Montreal school worked on that subject
in the past, but this information is unconfirmed ...
Joachim (= Jim) Lambek, at McGill University, has studied linguistics using category theory. You could start here:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=lambek+linguistics
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gjaeger/lehre/cg_ss00/lambek/lambek58.html
Best, jb
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